Napoleon - A Short Biography: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Napoleon - A Short Biography, credited to Robert Matteson Johnston, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Napoleon, A Short Biography by Robert Matteson Johnston. Read in English by Beth Thomas; Pamela Nagami; Ariphron; Linda Johnson; Owen Cook; RussellEric This is a 'lightning biography' which serves as an introduction to the field of Napoleonic history. Its purpose is to enable the ordinary reader or would-be student safely to take the first few steps in Napoleonic literature. This is not a short history, but a short biography - the one contains the other, but in a different key. (Summary by Beth Thomas and the Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Napoleon - A Short Biography
• Author credits: Robert Matteson Johnston
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 5:28:54

Catalogue topics

• napoleon
• bonaparte

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:05
2. 01 - Napoleon Before the Revolution — 14:56
3. 02 - Toulon and Vendemiaire — 17:48
4. 03 - The Campaign of Italy 1796-1797 — 20:10
5. 04 - Campo Formo and Egypt — 24:27
6. 05 - The 18th of Brumaire — 17:23
7. 06 - The 19th of Brumaire and Marengo — 25:31
8. 07 - Legislation and Administration — 21:11
9. 08 - The Duc D'Enghien and Trafalgar — 21:54
10. 09 - Austerlitz — 15:03
11. 10 - Jena and Friedland — 15:46
12. 11 - Napoleonic Policy 1806-1808 — 21:13
13. 12 - Wagram — 19:31
14. 13 - The Austrian Marriage and the Campaign of Russia — 26:54
15. 14 - The Struggle for Germany and Italy 1813 — 11:25
16. 15 - The Campaign of France — 15:06
17. 16 - Elba — 16:45
18. 17 - Waterloo and St. Helena — 20:45

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